Darling in the Franxx (2018)

Original title

ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス

Directed by

Atsushi Nishigori

Genre

mecha, science fiction anime and manga, post-apocalyptic anime

Country

Japan

Length

1 season, 24 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

8.5 of 10 from 1,919 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In a ruined future, artificially created children pilot giant mecha to fight monsters. The story centers on a boy and a half-human girl who form a special bond while trying to understand their own identities.

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What happens

Darling in the Franxx (Japanese: ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス, Hepburn: Dārin In Za Furankisu; stylized as DARLING in the FRANXX), abbreviated as DarliFra (ダリフラ, DariFura), is a Japanese science fiction mecha romance anime television series co-produced by A-1 Pictures and Trigger and animated by Trigger and CloverWorks that premiered in January 2018. The series was announced at Trigger's Anime Expo 2017 panel in July 2017. A manga adaptation by Kentaro Yabuki and another four-panel comic strip manga began serialization in January 2018. Darling in the Franxx is set in a dystopian future where children are artificially created and indoctrinated solely to defend the remnants of civilization. The story follows a squad of ten pilots, particularly focusing on the partnership between Hiro, a former prodigy, and Zero Two, a hybrid human and elite pilot who aspires to become entirely human. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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